Sentences with phrase «veiled threat on»

Cameron made his thinly veiled threat on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, when he said he was «entitled» and «enabled» to seek a repatriation of powers when other EU countries sought treaty change to make the single currency work more effectively.

Not exact matches

A person close to the government's side told Reuters that the Justice Department does not intend to press the argument that it could seize the company's code, and someone on Apple's side said the company isn't worried enough to counter the veiled threat in its brief due Tuesday.

«We truly despise the carrot - and - stick approach,» Jia said in a veiled swipe at Trump's threats to cut aid or impose tariffs on Latin American nations that do not do more to further efforts to create more US jobs and combat drug trafficking.

But if the extremely wealthy, under a veil secrecy, can destroy publications they want to silence, that's a far bigger threat to freedom of the press than most of the things we commonly worry about on that front.

There is also the matter of the thinly veiled (if at all) threat that regulators were looking closely at codifying their stances on cryptocurrency.

Success is «the best revenge that Bezos can get against the administration for its veiled threats about sales taxes and not paying its fair share,» said Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter told Reuters on Wednesday.

Andrew came on, unidentified, and dogmatically stated that a church should be run like a business and challenged David with a veiled threat «does the vineyard know what you're doing?»

Her witness avoids triumphalism, hawking someone else's conclusions, packaged answers to unasked questions, thinly veiled ultimatums and threats of hell, and assumptions of certainty on theological matters.

What audacity he has to go on national television and put forward a veiled threat to the US?

To this day, there are several videos posted on YouTube excoriating Janes and making veiled threats.

Everything turned on her line «no deal is better than a bad deal», coupled with the not - at - all - veiled threat that the UK will become a super low tax tiger economy if we don't get what we want.

Mayor Bloomberg issues a not - so - veiled threat to Omar from Queens, who briefly usurped him as mayor of City Hall on Foursquare.

In the Court's opinion, in view of its impact on the rights of women who wished to wear the full - face veil for religious reasons, a blanket ban on the wearing in public places of clothing designed to conceal one's face could be regarded as proportionate only in a context where there was a general threat to public safety.

Jay now quizzes Clegg on Cable's evidence in which «veiled threats» by Fred Michel were made to him.

Well, Eartha certainly fulfills her part of the Sugar relationship with Santa, not only with her panther - like purr (she did play Catwoman on the»60s Batman TV show, after all) but also with her assertions of fidelity to her Daddy, maybe with a little bit of veiled threat at the end:

Struggle ferocious rulers, spirits of the wilds and even a threat from beyond the veil — all hell - bent on controlling this world.

Entitled «Veiled Threats,» the cycle was inspired by the late Kashmiri - American poet Agha Shahid Ali's writings on memory, loss, love, and exile.

That said, the submission by the mall owner in the Court of Queen's Bench that it perceived the possibility of an increase to be a veiled threat certainly supports the minority's speculation on this point.

Thus for example, in Germany, in 2015, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled that a ban on teachers wearing Islamic veils at schools was not compatible with religious freedom and that veils did not pose a threat to the school's learning environment.